vil

vil

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vilela.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Vilela terms

• viil, biil (Sette Comuni)

From Middle High German vil, from Old High German filu, from Proto-Germanic *felu. Cognate with German viel, Dutch veel, English fele, Icelandic fjöl-.

vil

1. (Luserna) much, many

• biavl

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪl]

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vil f

1. genitive plural of vila

vil

1. masculine singular past active participle of vít

• IPA^(key): /vil/, [ve(l)]
• Rhymes: -e

vil

1. present of ville
2. imperative of ville

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vĩir. Compare Portuguese vir and Galician vir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbil/
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: vil

vil

1. to come

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

vil

1. first/third-person singular present of vilja

From Latin vīlis.

• IPA^(key): /vil/

vil (feminine vile, masculine plural vils, feminine plural viles)

1. cheap, worthless
2. vile (morally low)
   • 1992, Amélie Nothomb, Hygiène de l’assassin [The Assassin’s Hygiene] (fiction):

     Cessez de blasphémer, vile créature ! Apprenez, ignorante, que saint Prétextat était archevêque de Rouen au VI^e siècle, et grand ami de Grégoire de Tours, qui était un homme très bien, dont vous n’avez naturellement jamais entendu parler.

     Stop blaspheming, you vile creature! You’d better learn, ignorant woman, that Saint Praetextatus was Archbishop of Rouen in the 6^th century, and a friend of Gregory of Tours, who was a very good man, which you, unsurprisingly, never heard of.

• “vil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French ville.

• IPA^(key): /vil/

vil

1. city
   • 2019 March 19, “Rankont ann Itali ant Anvwaye Espesyal Etazini ak Larisi sou Kriz Venezuela a”, in Lavwadlamerik‎^[2]:

     Anvwaye espesyal Etazini pou Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, ak vis-minis afè etranjè Larisi, Sergei Ryabkov, ap fè reyinyon nan vil Wòm ann Itali pou yo pale sou “sityasyon Venezuela kap agrave.”

     American Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliot Abrams and Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov are having a meeting in the city of Rome, Italy to speak about "the worsening situation in Venezuela."

• (Courland) vi'l

From Proto-Finnic *vilu.

vil

1. cool

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪl/
• Homophone: vill
• Rhymes: -ɪl

vil

1. present of ville

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪl/
• Homophone: vill

vil

1. present of vilja

From Latin vilis.

vil m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vil or vile)

1. horrible; vile; awful
2. low; base

• vilment

• → English: vile

vil

1. first-person singular present active indicative of vilja

From Old Galician-Portuguese vil, from Latin vīlis (“cheap; vile”).

• Homophones: viu (Brazil), view (Brazil)
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
• Hyphenation: vil

vil m or f (plural vis)

1. mean; vile (morally low)

   Synonyms: abjeto, baixo, desprezível, indigno, maldoso, malvado, mau, sórdido

   Antonyms: bom, digno, nobre

2. cheap; worthless

   Synonyms: acessível, barato, reles

   Antonyms: caro, custoso

• vilmente

• “vil”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French vil.

• IPA^(key): /vil/

vil m or n (feminine singular vilă, masculine plural vili, feminine and neuter plural vile)

1. cheap, worthless
2. vile

• “vil”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Inherited from Latin vīlis (“cheap; vile”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbil/ [ˈbil]
• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: vil

vil m or f (masculine and feminine plural viles)

1. mean, despicable, vile

• “vil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• (Sandong) IPA^(key): /vi˩˧/

vil

1. fire

• IPA^(key): /vil/

vil

1. (intransitive) to fly

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.